Oak Theilbar

Lead Software Engineer

Threshold Games•  December 2019 - February 2024

Reduced occurrence of bugs and optimized performance by maintaining game state in SQLite. Translated complex game designs into technical features and requirements. Reduced risk and development time by guiding team on how to develop features iteratively. Fostered a collaborative culture for remote engineering team. Mentored engineering team members and provided actionable feedback. Produced and maintained accurate engineering product roadmaps and timelines.

Senior Software Engineer

Capital Prawn•  January 2018 - December 2019

Programmed horizontally scalable and highly parallel backend services in Go and Elixir. Wrote systems utilizing websockets to acquire real-time data feeds. Designed backend service to generate and manage composable algorithms. Structured code to facilitate integrating systems with arbitrary external services.

Senior Software Engineer

Porch•  November 2018 - July 2019

Mentored and trained six-member remote team in best practices for development of backend and frontend services. Designed and coded backend microservices in Scala. Enhanced performance and reliability of services by integrating with Kafka. Implemented frontend pages and systems by creating modular components in React.

Software Engineer

uGen World•  October 2016 - January 2018

Created data-driven procedural UI and trained design team on its usage. Reduced integration time by 50% by writing a client-side wrapper for backend REST API. Enhanced user experience by designing and implementing UI for PC, mobile, and VR platforms. Decreased new bug report count in production by 30% by establishing Git processes. Trained engineering team on REST API and relational database fundamentals. Led database design discussions between the design team and the services team.